The Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership in West Bengal on Tuesday expressed happiness over the Supreme Court’s decision to grant an interim stay on the order of the Calcutta High Court terminating the jobs of about 26,000 teachers and non-teaching staff recruited for State-run schools.
The termination of jobs has emerged as a political issue in the ongoing Lok Sabha election, and became a high point of the campaigns of both the ruling and Opposition parties in the State.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that she was “really very happy and mentally relaxed” on receiving justice at the highest court of the land. While addressing election rallies on Tuesday, the TMC chairperson targeted Opposition parties over the job terminations and said “like man-eating tigers there are job-eating tigers” in the State.
